What Makes Faith Revolutionary?

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Ten Minute Bible Talks

Mental Health, Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality, Health & Fitness, Christianity

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🗓️ 18 March 2020

⏱️ 9 minutes

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"Faith is always risky. And the centurion gets it. And he takes on the risk willingly. Giving his allegiance, pledging his allegiance to Jesus could mean losing his job—and not just losing his job but maybe even losing his life. But he does it anyway." What is faith? It's not mere intellectual assent. It's not praying a prayer. It's revolutionary, life-giving allegiance. We learn this from one of the most unlikely people. A Gentile. And not just any Gentile, a Roman centurion—a high-ranking officer of Israel's conquerors and oppressors. Learn what faith is as https://www.thecrossingchurch.com/staff/patrick-miller/ (Patrick) studies https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=luke+7.2-10&version=NIV (Luke 7.2-10) to continue our series on https://www.thecrossingchurch.com/podcast-series/how-to-follow-jesus/ (Learning to Follow Jesus). Interested in more content like this? Check out https://www.thecrossingchurch.com/podcasts/how-to-become-a-christian-learning-to-follow-jesus-luke/ (How to Become a Christian) and https://www.thecrossingchurch.com/podcast-series/how-to-follow-jesus/ (How the Gospel Preached Treason) to learn more. To learn more, visit our https://www.thecrossingchurch.com/ (website) and follow us on https://www.facebook.com/TheCrossingCOMO (Facebook), https://www.facebook.com/TheCrossingCOMO (Instagram), and https://twitter.com/thecrossingcomo (Twitter) @TheCrossingCOMO. Your support makes TMBT possible. Ten Minute Bible Talks is a crowd-funded project. Join the TMBTeam to reach more people with the Bible. Give now.

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0:00.0	Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life and the time it takes to get to work.
0:11.5	I'm Patrick Miller. And I'm Keith Simon. Right now we're
0:14.7	learning what it looks like to follow Jesus by working our way through the
0:18.4	Gospel of Luke. What does it mean to have faith in Jesus? Is it a simple affirmation of his existence?
0:26.0	Or is it having faith believing that he's God or that he's our Savior?
0:31.0	Or maybe faith is something different.
0:32.6	Maybe having faith means believing a certain set of beliefs.
0:36.5	Like faith means, I believe that I'm saved by grace.
0:40.0	Or faith means that I'm justified by faith.
0:43.1	What's faith?
0:43.6	I mean, if someone asked you, how would you answer the question?
0:46.0	What would you say faith is?
0:49.1	Luke, chapter 7, 2 to 10, is all about faith faith and it's about a surprising kind of faith that
0:55.4	comes from a surprising place so let's read in compernum a centurion
1:00.3	servant whom his master highly valued was sick and about to die.
1:05.1	The centurion heard of Jesus and sent some of the elders of the Jews to him, asking
1:09.4	him to come and heal his servant.
1:11.4	Okay, so let's pause here.
1:13.5	What's a centurion?
1:14.5	Well, a centurion was a Roman military official who oversaw a centuria, which was a group of
1:20.8	about 100 soldiers.
1:22.4	Okay, so let's keep going. When they came to Jesus
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